When a user or administrator issues a IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager command or uses a graphical user interface to perform an operation, the server starts a process. Some examples of an operation are registering a client node, deleting a management class, or canceling a client session.
| Task | Required Privilege Class |
|---|---|
| Display information about a server background process | Any administrator |
| Cancel a server process | System |
Most processes occur quickly and are run in the foreground, but others that take longer to complete run as background processes.
The server runs the following operations as background processes:
Auditing an automated library- Auditing licenses
- Auditing a volume
- Backing up the database
- Backing up a storage pool
- Checking volumes in and out of an automated
library
- Deleting a file space
- Deleting a storage volume
- Expiring the inventory
- Exporting or importing data
- Generating a backup set
- Migrating files from one storage pool to the next storage pool
- Moving data from a storage volume
- Reclaiming space from tape storage volumes
- Restoring a storage pool
- Restoring a volume
Note: To prevent contention for the same tapes, the server does not
allow a reclamation process to start if a DELETE FILESPACE process
is active. The server checks every hour for whether the DELETE FILESPACE
process has completed so that the reclamation process can start. After
the DELETE FILESPACE process has completed, reclamation begins within
one hour.
The server assigns each background process an ID number and displays
the process ID when the operation starts. This process ID number is
used for tracking purposes. For example, if you issue an EXPORT NODE
command, the server displays a message similar to the following:
EXPORT NODE started as Process 10Some of these processes can also be run in the foreground by using the WAIT=YES parameter when you issue the command from an administrative client. See Administrator's Reference for details.